This Stunning Photo Series Features Women Covering Their Insecurities in Glitter

Even though there's a ways to go, over the past few years we've seen some seriously promising strides toward a society that is more inclusive and accepting when it comes to body shape and size. More body-positive media campaigns are taking place than ever before, while on social media, people from around the world are sharing powerful photos and messages about the importance of self-love and body confidence.

There's one aspect of the body-positive movement that is often confused, though, and that's the idea that being body-positive magically frees you of insecurities. Spoiler alert: It does not. Body acceptance can and does coexist with having self-conscious days or wishing certain things about your body were different.

This is not to say we can't try our hardest to love what we think are our flaws, but what some don't realize is that it's less about loving them 24/7 and more about embracing them and flaunting them when we feel comfortable — a message our friends over at Revelist illustrated beautifully in a recent photo series. Oh, and it just so happens to feature one of our obsessions over here at Allure: glitter.

The photo shoot features three women on body-positive journeys covering areas they feel insecure about with glitter.

"We are all true millennials and are obsessed with glitter like everyone is," Revelist's editor-in-chief April Walloga tells Allure. "We wanted to create art that embraced and brought to light what society says we should hide, [and] what better way to showcase your supposed flaws than to cover it in glitter?" Glitter's definitely having a moment right now: Photographer Quil Lemons' Glitterboy alter ego, for example, is using the sparkly stuff to facilitate much-needed conversations about masculinity.

Revelist dedicated the project to followers of their "I Heart My Body" Facebook page, which Walloga explains is aimed at inspiring their audience to love themselves and live fearlessly as they are. Pretty rad, if you ask me.

"We were inspired to do this by another art project where models of all sizes bathed in gold paint," Walloga said. "We saw how readers responded to seeing bodies like theirs celebrated and wanted to take it to the next step and make it super personal and relatable so that our audience could see that not just models, but ours and their bodies — insecurities and all — deserved to be decorated and celebrated." Walloga added that Jessica and Brittany, two Revelist editors who were featured in the shoot, appear in a ton of the site's content, so readers have really gotten to know them. "I think that's what makes this so special," she said.

Check out the beautiful photos from the shoot below, as well as the behind-the-scenes video above. Who knows, maybe it will inspire you to cover the parts of yourself you've felt insecure about in glitter and have your own shoot. If so, flaunt that shit for the world to see.

Photographed by Marianne EspinosaPhotographed by Marianne EspinosaPhotographed by Marianne Espinosa